Active Learning from Infancy to Childhood: Social Motivation, Cognition, and Linguistic Mechanisms

Part I. Foundations of Active Learning .- Chapter 1. Introduction: Children Propel their Development.- Chapter 2. Curious Learners: Infants' Motivation to Learn Shapes.- Chapter 3. Taking Center Stage: Infants' Active Role in Language Learning.- Part II: Cognitive and Linguistic Skills that Enable Active Learning .- Chapter 4. Curiosity, Exploration, and Children's Understanding of Learning.- Chapter 5. The Process of Active Word Learning.- Chapter 6. Understanding When and How Explanation Promotes Exploration.- Chapter 7. Explanation Scaffolds Causal Learning and Problem Solving in Childhood.- Part III. Epistemic Trust: Selectivity in Children's Learning .- Chapter 8. Insights into Children's Testimonial Reasoning.- Chapter 9. Mechanisms of Selective Word Learning: Evidence and Implications.- Chapter 10. The Role of Linguistic Testimony in Children's Belief in the Existence of the Unobservable.- Part IV. Active Learning in Diverse Contexts .- Chapter 11. How Conversations with Parents May Help Children Learn to Separate the Sheep from the Goats (and the Robots).- Chapter 12. Choosing to Learn: Evidence Evaluation for Active Learning and Teaching in Early Childhood.- Chapter 13. Bilingual Children: Active Language Learners as Language Brokers.